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| Language of Light / Crow Tongue split 7" | ||
 Language of Light and Crow Tongue's split 7" record will be available to order Sept. 30th! The record is in marbled gray/blue and black vinyl inside a cover featuring artwork by Timothy Revelator, Frank Suchomel, and R. Loftiss. This release is limited to 500. This will be the first in a series of 7" records to be released by Dark Holler / Hand Eye. It features the songs Wind Chant by Crow Tongue and The Tower by Language of Light with Justin Jones on violin and spoken word by Sarah Hughes of Ctephin. |
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| When Knees Bent Backwards | ||
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Our dear friends The Ctephin Family Orchestra have created a beautiful video that includes footage of children playing with electric candles from R. and Frank's recent wedding. The video is accompanied by their haunting song "When Knees Bent Backwards" from the album Does Art For... which is available from Roil Noise. Thank you, Ctephin Family, you made the event that much more magical. |
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| Language of Light @ The Vault, Aug. 22nd | ||
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Language of Light will be performing at The Vault along with other artists and visual artists presented by the Stillwater Artist Coalition. Friday, Aug. 22nd @ 8:30 PM. Admission is free. All ages. The Vault 501 S. Washington Street Stillwater, OK myspace.com/vaultvenue |
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| Inalonelyplace tape release available from Best Kept Secret | ||
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Inalonelyplace's Distant Echoes is now available, on cassette, from the Italian tape label Best Kept Secret. Described by BKS as "A mesmerizing, stunning blend of ambient/drone music, dreampop, shoegaze and darkwave from Austin, Texas."..and I'd have to agree. |
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| RIP Woven Wheat Whispers | ||
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It's a sad day. Woven Wheat Whispers, a folk music download service and community has decided to shut down. As you may already know, Woven Wheat had been AntiClock's digital distributor for our out of print cds including Hypnagogia and Monosymphonic. More than that, though, Woven Wheat Whispers provided a feeling of pride in being a part of a movement. Woven Wheat Whispers was started by Mark Coyle several years ago. It was a huge undertaking to create a legal download service that specialized in folk and related music. It grew by leaps and bounds. While I feel its death is somewhat premature, I am astounded by all the work and dedication that went into creating it. We are forever grateful to Mark and others who believed in us and helped us on our path. Here is what Mark had to say about the decision to shut it down: "As you may have heard Woven Wheat Whispers was recently the subject of hacker attacks that hit a range of government and ecommerce websites. This happened a number of times so we took the site down to protect the data of our customers and artists. Our customer and artist data was not compromised but as the attacks inserted links to virus laden sites we needed to take prompt action. During this time we gave careful consideration to the future of Woven Wheat Whispers. As it was basically only myself now doing all the work, I wanted to consider whether the value we could provide to artists was worth the effort. I have now decided that now is a good time to close the service as larger companies like Myspace and Amazon come into the downloading market. We had aspired to grow further and secure a niche for folk and related music artists but we now believe this won't provide the kind of benefits we had hoped to our artist community." More about the decision to shut down can be read here: wovenwheatwhispers.blogspot.com |
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| Ctephin Remixes Aranis | ||
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Ctephin Hidden Soundscapes Remix Project This project of Ctephin's grew out of a love and fondness for Aranis. When given a copy of Aranis' newest project Hidden Soundscapes they were immediately inspired to interpret it in their own special Ctephin way. Every sound was initially taken from the orginal Aranis track and then manipulated using various computerized and analog means. Each track also conforms to the same length of the orginal track. This is a free download available from the brilliant Umbrella Noize Collective. |
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| Language of Light @ Under the Mooch, June 14th | ||
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Unfortunately, The North Sea will not be able to perform at this show as originally planned. Language of Light will be performing with on June 14th at 7pm at Under the Mooch. Under the Mooch 1423 S. Harvard Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Language of Light / Crow Tongue Split 7" | ||
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We are very excited to announce the newest project in the works: Language of Light and Crow Tongue will be sharing opposite sides of the same vinyl titled October 18th Wind Chant for the Language of Crows. It will feature one song and artwork from each of the artists. Crow Tongue is the project of Timothy Renner (of Stone Breath) and percussionist Æ Hoskin. Crow Tongue's sound has been called everything from "a more tribal Neurosis" to "Appalachian doom." The band itself has no name for it - they worship the groove and the low end centered around Hoskin's rhythms and tiMOTHy's own homemade invention, the guimbri-banjo (a bass-like banjo made to be a more stage-friendly version of the Moroccan guimbri bass lute, played clawhammer style). |
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| Ctephin / Sigillum Dei cd now available | ||
 The brilliant Ctephin / Sigillum Dei split from Ethedrone Muzac is now available from AntiClock Records. This album is 5 tracks of uncommon occult drone in uniquely layered packaging featuring exceptional artwork by Frank Suchomel.This album is also available from the fine folks at Ethedrone Muzac and Dark Holler (as are most AntiClock albums). |
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| New Dark Holler cds available | ||
| Some new Dark Holler cds are now available including Crow Tongue's Red Hand Mark, Prophecies and Secrets: the Red Hand Mark in Dub, and Ditch Mix Volume 2. | ||
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| Language of Light at the Terrastock TEA Party, May 11th | ||
 Language of Light will be performing at this year's Terrastock TEA Party in Austin, TX.The Terrastock TEA Party, started by Terrascope Audio Entertainment in 2007, is an attempt to bring the flavour of the legendary Terrastock festivals to the smaller stage. This year's TEA Party is a 3 day event, May 9th-11th. For more info visit the TEA Party myspace page. Sunday, May 11th Terrastock TEA Party Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78722 Telephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 |
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| AntiClock Welcomes Language of Light into the Fold | ||
 AntiClock is proud to announce Language of Light's first release Inside the Head of a Butterfly Dreaming of Being a Giant Moth Destroying Tokyo is now available. Language of Light is the love child of Frank Suchomel of Inalonelyplace (Ethedrone Muzac) and R. Loftiss of The Gray Field Recordings (AntiClock Records). The music blends guitar exacerbation with the swinging good times of a lobster quadrille. It is better than a sharp stick in the eye and has a crescent fresh feeling. This album comes in a fiberboard case stamped with a handmade stamp by R. Loftiss and an insert featuring artwork by Frank Suchomel. Also included is the genius of Dave Brymer from Ghosties. It is limited to 50 hand signed and numbered copies. |
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| AntiClock cds Available from Dark Holler | ||
| Some AntiClock albums are now available for purchase from the exquisite Dark Holler site alongside other brilliant artists. Saunter over and have a look-see. | ||
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| The Gray Field Recordings, inalonelyplace in Nashville Mar. 3rd | ||
 March 3rd@ Chez Seany Poo 806 Kendall Dr. Nashville, TN Language of Light (Frank Suchomel of Inalonelyplace and R. Loftiss of The Gray Field Recordings) Language of Light is the love child of Frank Suchomel of Inalonelyplace (Ethedrone Muzac) and R. Loftiss of The Gray Field Recordings (AntiClock Records). The music blends guitar exacerbation with the swinging good times of a lobster quadrille. It is better than a sharp stick in the eye and has a crescent fresh feeling. Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham - Australia) Lucas Abela has been performing for well over 10 years and is one of the leaders of Australian "noise music". His early performances were crazed extensions of turntablism. Instead of turntables he’d use motors turning metal discs at 2000 rpm, and instead of record needles he’d use skewers or knives. He once used a glove that he had imbedded with record needles. Incorporating everything from trampolines to sewing machines into his performances, in recent years he’s been using sheets of glass that he blows through, screams through, bites and breaks. Lucas has toured over 30 countries with this new act, appeared on numerous television shows, and even crashed a John Peel session at the BBC. - ABC News Koonda Holaa (Radon Collective - Czech Republic) Born in the late 60's in Czechoslovakia, Kamilsky attended music school at the age of 5. Emerging as an overtrained folk singer who spent his frustration crafting protest songs. Likely not the ones that changed the regime in 1989 by which Kamilsky was imprisoned for 2 years after destroying a public statue of the first communist leader. Since 1986 he has performed with many notoriously known bands and performers such as punk band F.P.B., Pseudo Pseudo, Linda Sibio, Jim Cert, Lukas Ligeti, Exene Cervenka, Lydia Lunch, the Residents, Joe Budenholzer (Foetus, Backworld), and the Violent Femmes. Also: Bryan Lewis Saunders Dick Ness Arc |
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| Dark Holler, Hand/Eye | ||
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AntiClock is now in cahoots with the ever-so-talented folks at Dark Holler and will carry various Dark Holler and Hand/Eye releases. Currently available are Crow Tongue's newest release Ghost Eye Seeker and Stone Breath's Songs of Moonlight and Rain. Dark Holler's artists have been some of the most influential to us over the years and we can't tell you how proud we are to be offering their albums.  Ghost Eye Seeker is Crow Tongue's first full length album. Fingerpicked strings and Eastern instruments recall Crow Tongue’s musical heritage (the acid-folk of Stone Breath), but here they are layered with primitive homemade instruments, circuit-bent electronics, and mantric drones. I've never heard anything like this before.  Presaging the free/freak/acid-folk boom by almost a decade, Stone Breath carved a unique place in what was then a very lonely neighborhood. Songs of Moonlight and Rain, the first Stone Breath album, struck a spectral note somewhere between Syd Barrett singing nature poetry and The Incredible String Band’s more lonesome moments; blended with experimental graveyard-songs and acoustic drones into a brew of darkness and hope; nature and supernature; love and loss. This expanded edition presents the entire original album with nine bonus tracks. Songs of Moonlight and Rain is a classic and essential for any fan or any person first delving into the realm of psych/experimental folk. |
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| Side-line review of Aranis | ||
| "...has a unique operatic passion and intensity that cannot be ignored..." - Read more at Side-line | ||
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| Evening of Light review of Aranis | ||
| "...an excellent and exciting album that should not be skipped by lovers of experimental music, contemporary classical, and crossover genres." - read more at Evening of Light | ||
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